Razor-stropper.



W. S. JONES.

RAZOR STROPPER.

APPLICATI 0N FILED mun Patented Oct. 23, 1917.

inventor Aicomeys Witnesses WALTER SANFORD JONES, or ATHENS, GEORGIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 17, 1917. Serial No. 142,891.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, WALTER S. JoNEs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Athens, in the county of Clarke and State of Georgia, haveinvented a new and useful Razor-Stropper, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to razor stropping machines, one of its objectsbeing to provide a machine of this character utilizing revolublestropping elements between which the blade of a razor may be placed andwhich elements will strop the razor while they are being rotated, therebeing a support provided for the razor whereby the razor can be shiftedwhile in position so as to be acted upon by either of the stroppingelements between which it is placed.

A still further object is to provide a machine of this character whichis simple and compact in construction, can be easily operated, and willnot injure the blade placed in position therein.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention hasbeen shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine, a portionof one of the stropping elements being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 Fig. 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designatessupporting brackets in which is journaled a shaft '2 which may berotated in any desired manner, as by means of a crank 3. This shaft isprovided with a flat face 4 extending longitudinally thereof andslidably mounted on the shaft but revoluble therewith are stroppingelements each of which is in the form of a disk 5 having a covering 6'of leather which may extend over a packing 7 of any soft material suchas cork, hair or the like. The stropping faces made up of the coverings6 are held normally together by springs 8 which are mounted on the shaftand bear against the disks 5 and also against collars 9 fastened to theshaft 2. A holding plate 10 is adapted to be secured to a base 11 onwhich the brackets or bearings 1 are secured and insertible intoposition under this plate is the base 12 of a standard 13. Said standardis provided at its upper end with parallel angle strips let spaced aparta sufficient distance to receive between them the shank S of a razorblade B.

In using the machine, the shank S of the razor blade is placed betweenthe strips 1d and the stropping elements are shifted apart, after whichthe base 12 is slid longitudinally under the plate 10 so that the bladeB is brought to position between the stropping elements. Said elementsare then released and the springs 8 will shift them toward each other sothat'they will bind,

upon the blade. By then swinging the handle H of the razor toward oneside, the edge of the blade B will be pressed against one of thestropping disks. The rotation of shaft 2 by means of crank 3 will resultin said disk rubbing upon the edge portion of the blade and by swingingthe handle H to the other side, the other stropping disk will be causedto act on the edge portion of the blade. Thus the blade can be quicklyand efficiently stropped on both sides successively simply by swingingthe handle H to the right and to the left.

What is claimed is 1. A stropping machine including a shaft mounted forrotation, disks slidably mounted on the shaft and having opposedstropping faces, yielding means for normally holding the stropping facespressed to gether, and a razor support comprising a standard mounted toslide toward and away from the disks and spaced angle arms projectingfrom the standard and adapted to embrace the shank of a razor.

2. A stropping machine including a shaft mounted for rotation, disksslidably mount- Patented Oct. 23, 191?.

ed on the shaft and having opposed strop- In testimony that I claim theforegoing ping faces, yielding means for normally as my own I havehereto aifixed my signaholding the stropping faces in contact a ture inthe presence of two Witnesses.

standard slidably mounted beside the shaft, WALTER SANFORD J ONES. andspaced arms extending from the stand- Witnesses:

ard and adapted to vloosely embrace the H. H. GANETONT shank of a razor.E. J. CRAWFORD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for firre cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of yatents, Washington, D. G.

